Bluemoon goes into Meltdown

Sure, they're a local rival, it's only normal most people here care about them (even if they don't like to admit it).

The point was how much people/football fans in general care about them, not rival fans from the same city.
 
There's simply no arguing Dortmund and Atletico deserve more respect than City for what they have achieved, and it's a big reason they have so many neutrals rooting for them. The way City have achieved success I still contend was/is the only way it was possible for a club like us in the situation we were in, but our issue has been that Chelsea were there before us, an already established sugar daddy club who could break the Arsenal & United monopoly and harbour widespread interest and resentment in equal measure. That's why everything City does will feel a little underwhelming in comparison to when Chelsea did it, for example, and we will need longer to reach the level they are at regarding global appeal and fanbase.

Imagine if Wolfsburg somehow won the Bundesliga this season. It would be a huge story, an underdog overcoming the seemingly invincible Bayern. But if a couple of seasons later Schalke did the same, then less people would take an interest or be as attracted to the story because it had been done only a couple of years ago. That's basically what City are suffering now, plus how we have achieved success lacks the romanticism that coincides with a club like Dortmund or Atletico getting one over on their much bigger rival.

Yeah i'd agree with that, and tbf the bolded bit wasn't really something i'd considered before.
 
Nothing. It's pretty lame as an insult.

Literally the only thing i can think of is that our grass is a darker shade of green than most, and looks a bit swampy. And i'm pretty sure i just made that up or i'm seeing things or something. That wouldn't be enough to form the basis for an insult that widespread, would it?
 
Literally the only thing i can think of is that our grass is a darker shade of green than most, and looks a bit swampy. And i'm pretty sure i just made that up or i'm seeing things or something. That wouldn't be enough to form the basis for an insult that widespread, would it?

Maybe we borrowed swamps from City sometime in the past.
 
Of course, but Eboue's post was referring to Redcafe in particular.
I wouldn't listen to Eboue, he seems to have gone off the rails a little bit since Barney's departure, he feels like he needs to be the new #1 ABU on the forum until we can promote someone else.
 
Makes sense, they seem to have experience where desolate landscapes are concerned.

You know what a swamp is, right?

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Desolate:

1. (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
2. feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness

I'd say a swamp fits that description.
 
Come baaaack, Wrongettaaaaa
 
Desolate:

1. (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
2. feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness

I'd say a swamp fits that description.
Not really - it's the opposite of empty. A desert or a moor is desolate, a swamp not so much.
 
I respect Newcastle as well, they're one of the clubs I'd like to see do well. Would be great to see them in a cup final at Wembley. That's mainly because of their fanbase though and how I can see some parallels with City regarding their club size and lack of success. But I'd rather they had an owner like Mansour pumping money into the club than Mike Ashley. As for you feeling nothing towards City, well, fair enough, but I'm sure if City progress and build on our current success we should be able to make you hate us, hopefully. ;).

I've hated your lot with a horrible hate all my life, I thought it was hilarious when they were languishing in the lower leagues.
 
Not really - it's the opposite of empty. A desert or a moor is desolate, a swamp not so much.

It might have plant life, wild life or whatever. But there's no one there, you'd be pretty lonely unless you were Dr fecking Doolittle.

Desolate Swamp, NY.
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So one of the proudest moments in their history is about us getting relegated.:lol:

That was the op of a thread discussing the centenary of the "Rags vs Liverpool scandal". We are probably a little too obsessed with RAWK and making fun of Liverpool but at least we mock them for things they've done in living memory.
 
It might have plant life, wild life or whatever. But there's no one there, you'd be pretty lonely unless you were Dr fecking Doolittle.

Desolate Swamp, NY.
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Looks blissful to me! Seems like another example of Americans giving things really odd names :D

A definition of desolate that fits what I've always used it as:
deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

Places like swamps are deserted of people, but I don't think you could argue that they're bleak or dismal. This picture looks desolate to me:

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My immediate thought of a desolate place is somewhere like that, anywhere you'd expect to find a tumbleweed basically. But i still think you can apply the characteristics to a swamp.
 
Swamps can be desolate but not all desolate places are swamps i.e the council house.
 
I don't care about swamps and this proves that I hate them. Or something.
 
My immediate thought of a desolate place is somewhere like that, anywhere you'd expect to find a tumbleweed basically. But i still think you can apply the characteristics to a swamp.
Very strange! :D

To me, the polar opposite of desolate would be "lush", and swamps are generally pretty lush. For you the polar opposite appears to be "populated", which just doesn't fit for me :)
 
According to Talksport 40 percent of people hate swamps. 6 percent hate desolate places. 45 percent dont care about jungles.
Conclusion - 75 percent care about City.
 
I polled myself, and I changed my name to TALKSPORT, I don't care about Manchester City. 0% of people care about City, this is scientifically proven.
 
Let's be honest, you guys can't really claim you don't care about Manchester city when there is a 169 page thread cataloging the stupid things their fans say.
In over 5 years. The last few hundred posts of which have been mocking a mentally challenged chap. I'd say that's fairly low considering.
 
Quicksand, i guess, is about as swampy as a desert ever gets. Which is to say, not very.

Quicksand requires water I think, I guess in the desert you could have weird hollows that might be like a sand-trap but I'm not sure.